Re: [Clonezilla-live] fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=boot'
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=boot'
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From: Dale S. <ml...@ri...> - 2009-09-21 17:38:03
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Hi,
I'm a co-worker of Davidson's (although I am remote from his
location) and have talked with Davidson about this issue,
(This email is sent with Davidson's concurrence).
> Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
clonezilla-live-1.2.2-26
> Are you sure the different "target" harddrive size is equal or larger
> than the original one?
Yes, definitely.
New information:
The image restore process has been tried multiple times onto
different hard drives. Sometimes it seems to mostly work and
sometimes it fails with Fedora 11, as described. The behavior was
constant for a given target hard drive.
However, when a hard drive for which F11 failures were occurring
was first zeroed before the restart being done, all was well:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
In the two cases tried with target pre-zeroing, the resulting
restored target drive does work properly under Fedora 11. The next
test to be performed by the original poster will be to find another
"uninitialized" target drive upon which he can first verify the
original problem occurs, and then zero just the MBR area.
The hypothesis stated in the original poster's email seems probable:
... the imaging process [is] perhaps not properly initializing some
portion of the destination hard drive (e.g., maybe by zeroing it
[or something in or near the MBR]) in a way that Fedora 5 does not
care about, but Fedora 11 does.
I hope the above will help to diagnose the problem.
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 09:53:05PM +0800, Steven Shiau wrote:
> Hi Davidson,
> Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
> Are you sure the different "target" harddrive size is equal or larger
> than the original one?
>
> Steven.
>
> Davidson Hom wrote:
> >
> > I am using CloneZilla to image a hard drive. This hard drive is
> > dual-boot for Fedora 5 and Fedora 11, sharing a boot partition.
> >
> > The boot partition has the Fedora 5 version of grub.
> >
> > The partition layout is:
> > /dev/sda1 /boot
> > /dev/sda2 / for FC5
> > /dev/sda3 swap
> > /dev/sda4 extended
> > /dev/sda5 / for F11
> > /dev/sda6 /home
> >
> > On the system/drive *from* which the image is made, all works as
> > expected. I can boot into either Fedora 5 or Fedora 11, and either of
> > those OS's can access the /home partition with no problem.
> >
> > I then restored the disk image back onto the same system with the same
> > hard drive. All was OK.
> >
> > I then restored the disk image back onto the same system with a
> > different hard drive, but the same model (presumably identical
> > hardware). The problem does occur.
> >
> > If I restore on a different system, but to the original hard drive,
> > things work.
> >
> > After restoring the different harddrive, I boot into Fedora 5 and all
> > is well. Everything is properly accessible. As expected, I get the
> > following output from running blkid:
> >
> > /dev/sda3: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap" UUID="4167d8f6-e6a6-422f-b7f3-b63402b71b1e"
> > /dev/sda2: LABEL="/" UUID="ea61bbcb-b692-416f-96fe-3915614a2d4c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
> > /dev/sda1: LABEL="boot" UUID="8b50e034-d9c0-4295-bade-bde385368c8d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
> > /dev/sda5: UUID="93759d5a-452d-4fbe-8725-cccb71e2dc24" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
> > /dev/sda6: UUID="7a78f920-a0ac-4706-9b80-2e3a3b69627e" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="home"
> >
> > Output of ls -ld /dev/sda*:
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 Sep 17 09:20 sda
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 1 Sep 17 09:20 sda1
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 2 Sep 17 09:20 sda2
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 3 Sep 17 09:20 sda3
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 4 Sep 17 09:20 sda4
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 5 Sep 17 09:20 sda5
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 6 Sep 17 09:20 sda6
> >
> > However, when I boot into Fedora 11, the boot fails with the diagnostic:
> > fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=boot'
> > dumping me into the shell, from which I see:
> >
> > "fdisk -l" output:
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sda1 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> > /dev/sda2 14 2563 20482875 83 Linux
> > /dev/sda3 2564 3073 4096575 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> > /dev/sda4 3074 19457 131604480 5 Extended
> > /dev/sda5 3074 5684 20971520 83 Linux
> > /dev/sda6 5684 19457 110632927+ 83 Linux
> >
> > blkid output:
> > /dev/sda5: UUID="0008f94193759d5a-452d-4fbe-8725-cccb71e2dc24" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
> > /dev/sda6: LABEL="home" UUID="7a78f920-a0ac-4706-9b80-2e3a3b69627e" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
> >
> > Output of ls -ld /dev/sda*:
> > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-09-17 09:42 sda
> > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 5 2009-09-17 09:42 sda5
> > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 6 2009-09-17 09:42 sda6
> >
> > It's worthy of note that partitions 4, 5, and 6 were created during
> > the installation of Fedora 11.
> >
> > I will also note that if I remove the F11 /etc/fstab entry for the
> > boot partition, that F11 boots OK, but still only recognizes sda5 and
> > sda6 as partitions.
> >
> > So, I am puzzled:
> >
> > 1. My configuration works from the system before imaging.
> > Both Fedora 5 and Fedora 11 recognize all partitions.
> >
> > 2. My configuration works from the system after imaging,
> > for Fedora 5, but not Fedora 11.
> > Fedora 11 is recognizing only two of the partitions.
> >
> > 3. My configuration works if I restore the exact same hard drive
> > (not just the same hard drive model), both both F5 and F11.
> >
> > Conclusion: ???
> > This is a hard one, but is the imaging process perhaps not properly
> > initializing some portion of the destination hard drive (e.g., maybe
> > by zeroing it) in a way that Fedora 5 does not care about, but Fedora
> > 11 does.
> >
> > Any help appreciated!
> >
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